2009 – Page 71 – Shall Not Be Questioned

More on the Gun Sales

From today’s Shooting Wire, demand for AR-15s has been dropping, but is still high for .22s:

And the research tells me what everyone already knows: gun sales are slowing again. It seems the “Barack Boom” has started to go bust. No real reason, other than maybe the fact that everyone has all the AR-style rifles they can shoot, store or afford, but there is an undeniable slowdown –virtually across the board. One exception, the still-ubiquitous .22 caliber rifles. They are selling quite well – probably because we’ve all realized that our assorted thumper guns have become the “gas guzzlers” of the shooting industry.

I’d be willing to bet that more of the folks buying up guns in the Great Obama Gun Rush are first time gun buyers than some would care to recognize, and a .22LR has to be part of any collection if someone is serious about shooting. Â You can blow through a lot of ammo learning to shoot, and it’s cheaper to do that with a .22 than with an AR.

Never Again

At least one rabbi wants to see that Jewish congregations are prepared for the possibility of anti-Semitic violence. Â Last time I was at a synagogue, I was only one of several armed individuals. Â I think it’s a lot more common than you would imagine.

Who’s Providing Guns to the Manatees?

Turns out they are stolen, but naturally the Bradenton Herald thinks that’s a reason for more gun control.

More Illegal Mayors Going Down

NRA is targeting mayors in South Carolina too. Â We’ve only touched on this, but NRA has engaged Bloomberg’s anti-gun mayors coalition in an attempt to get mayors to leave the coalition. Â You can see their site here. Â Since the campaign began not too long ago, 20 mayors have already left.

Go check out the site. Â This is a project Bitter and I have lent some assistance to NRA on, sharing some of our research. Â I think they got the idea for the Google map from us too :) It’s a great example of what can be accomplished when NRA and blogs work together, and we were happy to lend whatever information we could.

The Other Obama Gun Stimulus

Patrik Jonsson reports on a little known Great Obama Gun Rush fact. Â Namely that stimulus money is also being spent by police departments who are hiring more officers, and buying more guns.

This is Bat Country

Waiting for my connection in Las Vegas. Â Looks like I’ll be delayed. Â Unfortunately it takes a lot of traveling to get to Reno from the east coast, and there are no direct flights. Â Original time of arrival was 11:30pm EDT. Â I don’t really want to arrive later, but it looks like I will. Â Fortunately the airport is WiFi enabled.

UPDATE: Finally home. Â Normal blogging to resume tomorrow.

I’d Like To Thank

Larry Weeks of Brownell’s, who came out to represent his company to bloggers. Â Larry’s been a regular attendee of GBR, and helped us run the Gun Blogger Steel Challenge as an RSO. Brownells is a great company that does a lot of good things for the shooting sports and for the Second Amendment.

Bill Brassard of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, for coming out all the way from Connecticut and talking to bloggers, feeding us pizza, and for letting me bum a ride off him to the shooting range. Â NSSF runs a blog called Aiming for Accuracy.

Alan Gura was our guest of honor, but there’s really no way I think we can say thank you enough for what he’s done for the Second Amendment. Â I’ll have more to say about Alan’s talk later, as it was very interesting.

Headed Home

Highlights of GBR IV:

Steel Challenge is a hell of a lot of fun. Â Out of 20 shooters, I think my rank was 6. Â I had an advantage shooting rimfire, but I was still pretty happy with my results having never shot Steel Challenge before.
Alan Gura beating me in an iPhone light saber fight.
“Molly has a cyclic rate of 238 rounds per minute.”
Getting my ass whipped in Steel Challenge by a 13 year old girl.

More shortly

Questions about Glock

Business Week has an interesting article about Glock posted today. It raises some questions about the business structure and profits of Glock, but I’m not sure what they are describing is illegal.

This is NOT a Gun – Get That?

Under no circumstances should you consider a long gun-shaped device a toy gun or a gun accessory for a video game. The sacred g word shall not be uttered, and we aren’t talking about the big guy upstairs. Find out more about this absurdity from JR.